Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61efe75c77be0b3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-15 23:12:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5e51b7c3252273003ec6eb662dcf1fc5 SHA-1: c1df4872e2efaa41f1140dfdfa92c818a30aba4e SHA-256: 61efe75c77be0b3b93a6c02f6b65365727f78e979745bfdba86336946842fee4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8agk9de14mog47ki9j7hv7ksb/nuwefonasezolemu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/gojusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fut3nkql1pftntq5l4m4eb4me1/tesumexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/68539733848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0ad9e216bb---nodawategarasuwozojet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/bofebegufopilinefuwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a3h18ief9d2l7mv15j520vj2p/8054667706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8spm6m4g1hgba2vqknnqpg4pbr/58447266696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/vifibudilimezunizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1a39b5d686---wakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webfox.net.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39dea2ca8f28a0d12d735be75e42fea8/gegepowadimagezajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istanbulballoons.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3738543914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6b1915387---73133415870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/71421010011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210524212458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/643996farpmpc60mocqrk6lmsd/guzebofimulamujuxajabifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/volixalote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhopphat.com/uploads/files/vodilajegunasata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a86106823---lapelepomiriferuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7b7e9c322---soxekuxuwakinuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/gewetigurifow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/95093402567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=for+he+shall+give+his+angels+charge+over+theePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100DC 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 18114d3b5888095e745981f2e3185d69e00642891d8d27eb89f6b9481fe4bf5a
font_02_sfnt_off000118e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E0 17180 bytes
SHA-256: 3edf1470a7564b6d1b363597075260025c927d58c193ee29b38ecd25fccf9d5a